"I have absolutely no idea. I haven't talked to anyone about it, so yeah, we'll just have to wait and see. No idea at all."

Of course, Captain America: The First Avenger was set in the 1940s, and it isn't known how Red Skull would be inserted into a modern-day story. However, the actor did reveal in 2012 that he has signed a multi-picture deal with Marvel, but he hasn't appeared in any other movies. We reported earlier this month that Daniel Brühl has been cast as the main villain, with some speculating that he could be a different version of Red Skull.

Would you like to see Hugo Weaving return as Red Skull in either Captain America: Civil War or a different Marvel movie? Chime in with your thoughts below.

There has been no shortage of news regarding the highly-anticipated Star Wars: Episode VII, although, at this point, nothing has been confirmed, except that J.J. Abrams is directing from a script he is rewriting alongside Lawrence Kasdan. Aside from this highly-anticipated sequel, and follow-ups Star Wars: Episode VIII and Star Wars: Episode IX, LucasFilm and Disney are also developing the Untitled Star Wars Boba Fett Spin-Off and Untitled Star Wars Han Solo Spin-Off, giving fans a new Star Wars movie every year from 2015 to 2019. Needless to say, Disney and LucasFilm wants to get everything perfect, to meet the exceedingly high expectations from the fans.

Today, we have news that Disney and LucasFilm are considering actors Michael Fassbender, Hugo Weaving and Adam Driver. While it isn't known what roles Michael Fassbender and Adam Driver are up for, Hugo Weaving is in contention to play an Imperial commander.

Inside sources also confirmed a report from last week that Breaking Bad star Jesse Plemons is meeting with J.J. Abrams to discuss an unidentified role, although it isn't known if an offer has been made to the actor as of yet, and he is just one of several actors who are meeting with the filmmaker.

The project has been changed significantly since J.J. Abrams and Lawrence Kasdan took over the writing duties back in October from Michael Arndt. At the time, it was revealed that the change was made to accommodate a shrinking time frame, but it seems that was not actually the case. Michael Arndt's departure was due to creative differences about which characters to emphasize.

The new story will focus on Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill), Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), with their characters' children playing supporting roles. Michael Arndt's script had the original trilogy heroes in supporting roles, with their offspring as the main characters, but J.J. Abrams wanted to give the fans one last chance to enjoy Luke, Han and Leia before giving them a fitting send-off. There are other characters from Michael Arndt's draft that are now being cut, with new roles being drafted. George Lucas himself was said to be involved in the debate, although he acquiesced to J.J. Abrams and producer Kathleen Kennedy, who now runs LucasFilm.

With the new script being drafted, several actors who were once in contention for the project are no longer involved. Tye Sheridan (Mud) met with J.J. Abrams for a part, but the overhauled story has no need for such younger actors. There is also a character who was conceived as a 20-year-old male, who is now being rewritten as a 40-year-old. The filmmaker is said to be casting a wide net to fill out the cast, continuing to meet with actors while he works on the script. One of the roles producers are searching to cast is a 20-year-old female who is either African-American or mixed race, who is rumored to be either Obi-Wan Kenobi's daughter or granddaughter.

Production recently began on the highly-anticipated drama Cloud Atlas, which does not have a release date locked in yet. Click on the photos below, which feature cast members Halle Berry, Hugo Weaving, and co-director Tom Tykwer, to access our growing gallery from Cloud Atlas.

By request, these photos have been removed.

This adaptation of David Mitchell's novel follows six separate characters throughout multiple time frames including period and futuristic settings. It is believed that Tom Tykwer is directing the period segments of Cloud Atlas while Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski will direct the future story lines.

NECA's HeroClix is set to release their Marvel's the Avengers line in 2012, and a product description sent to retailers seemingly gives away the identity of the film's top secret villain. If we are to believe this toy description, Captain America: The First Avenger foe Red Skull (Hugo Weaving) will be the one helping Loki to destroy our team of superheroes this summer.

Here is the product description for the HeroClix line of Marvel's the Avengers miniature figurines.

"Charging straight out of theaters and onto your tabletop, Marvel's the Avengers Movie HeroClix set features heroes like Captain America and Thor as they battle the villainy of the Red Skull and Loki! Each Counter-Top display includes standard one-figure boosters as well as new three-figure "Team Packs"! Team Packs are designed with strong thematic undertones - play a Hydra force or defend freedom with a S.H.I.E.L.D. team pack!"

It should be noted that at the end of Captain America: The First Avenger, Red Skull is transported into another realm, which could very well be Asgard. Its also possible that Red Skull is include in his Marvel's the Avengers line simply because it contains 24 single figures, plus 4 team packs of 3 figures each. That's a lot of characters needed to fill out this particular set of miniatures, and NECA may simply be borrowing characters from other Marvel movies.

Captain America: The First Avenger is still one month away. Leading up to its release, we will be bombarded with more and more video and images from this Marvel adventure, and today is no exception. We have a new batch of photos which show off the Howling Commandos as led by James "Bucky" Barnes (Sebastian Stan), another look a Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) enduring his USO tour, Hayley Atwell as Peggy Carter, and Johann Shmidt (Hugo Weaving) before becoming the Red Skull. Check them all out below.

Production continues on Peter Jackson's two-part epic The Hobbit in New Zealand, which is being eyed for a December 2012 release. Today, actor Ian McKellen updated his personal website with news that Hugo Weaving has been confirmed to return as Elrond.

This is not another April Fool, just a May Fact. Before signing as Bilbo, Martin had agreed to make three 90-minute TV films in London, again playing Dr Watson to Benedict Cumberbatch's Sherlock Holmes. No worries: he'll be back in Middle Earth after our first hiatus, during which Peter Jackson will have spare time to edit the scenes already completed. The rest of the cast remains on duty for another few weeks, working on hobbit-less sections of the film. These involve dwarves of course but also elves, with Hugo Weaving back for a stretch as Lord Elrond.

Hugo was recently onstage as Astrov in Chekov's Uncle Vanya for the Sydney Theatre Company, whose director, Cate Blanchett, played Yelena. Before she returns as Galadriel, they will reprise their production at Washington DC's Kennedy Center in August. I shall miss the revival, because of my own play, Eduardo De Filippo's The Syndicate at Chichester Festival Theatre and a short UK tour.

Another slim-line elf returning from LOTR, is a local: New Zealand's actor/comedian/singer Bret McKenzie. Last time, he was an extra at Rivendell, the elven Last Homely House in the East. Under a tree at the Council of Elrond, he silently witnessed the forming of the Fellowship. Wordless maybe but not unnoticed by fans of the beautiful, who gave him the acronym F.I.G.W.I.T. ("Frodo Is Great! Who Is That?") I confess Gandalf didn't take much notice, distracted by the main action that involved all the main characters.

I only joined Bret's fan-base, when he joined up with Jemaine Clement in their hilarious tv series Flight of the Conchords. Now he is briefly back in Rivendell as a senior official at Elrond's Court and he has a name "Lindir", which means "singer". Tolkien has plenty of songs in The Hobbit but the script doesn't indicate that Lindir will be singing any of them. If, as he promises, Bret makes a Conchord feature film ere long, I shall angle for a non-speaking part as BIGWIT. ("Bret Is..." etc.)

And there's another wizard in town, preparing to make his appearance as Radagast the Brown, the eccentric friend of Gandalf's, played by Sylvester McCoy who was last in Wellington in 2007, King Lear's Fool in the Royal Shakespeare production in which I was his nuncle, now Sylvester's nick-name for me. This week he has been trying out his make-up and costume. At the prospect of our scenes together, Nuncle couldn't be happier.

"Actor Hugo Weaving has said he is working on the film adaption of David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas with the makers of The Matrix!"

We reported in January that Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski will direct along with Tom Tykwer. Halle Berry and Natalie Portman are attached to star. Here's a synopsis of the David Mitchell novel below.

"The story presents six narratives that evoke an array of genres, from Melvillean high-seas drama to California noir and dystopian fantasy. There is a naive clerk on a nineteenth-century Polynesian voyage: and aspiring composer who insinuates himself to the home of a syphilitic genius: a journalist investigating a nuclear plant: a publisher with a dangerous best-seller on his hands: and a cloned human being created for slave labour. These five stories are bisected and arranged around a sixth, the oral history of a post-apocalyptic island, which forms the heart of the story."

It isn't known when production will start on Cloud Atlas. The budget is said to be between $80 million and $100 million.

In revealing the first official photo of Hugo Weaving as Red Skull, director Joe Johnston also offered more information about the upcoming Marvel adventure. He first talked about those things that make Captain America an interesting and relatable character.

"What I like is he's not a superhero in the true sense of the word. He becomes a superhero but doesn't have any super powers. He is just the best possible, human specimen. Imagine the fastest, strongest Olympian athlete. Add 30 percent. That's Steve Rogers. The thing that appeals to me is he is everyman. He's a 98-pound weakling. All he really wants to do is the right thing and serve his country and [at first] nobody wants him because he's too weak. He's been picked on all his life. But he's a guy who never gives up. That's his trademark."

Joe Johnston also revealed why it is important for Steve Rogers to stop the villainous Red Skull.

"For Steve Rogers it's a very personal thing. At one point he says, "I don't like bullies, I don't care where they're from." He makes a complete physical transformation to a perfect human specimen. But inside he doesn't change at all. It must be tempting to go back and say "I'm going to get that guy who beat me up in high school." He does get revenge in the film, but on the Nazis - not on people who maybe picked on him. Before he gets the injection, the doctor tells him: "Whatever happens, stay who you are." He was created as propaganda tool, but he soon became much more than that. There are all these incarnations over the decades, but the film is not a flag waver. It's about a guy who wants to do the right thing, and that transcends all nationalities and borders. He's going to do the right thing no matter what flag is on his chest."

Joe Johnston also talked about his feelings towards the title change to just The First Avenger in other countries.

"There was some concern [the name] Captain America will not play in certain countries. If it were up to me I wouldn't thread the needle so carefully. I'd call it Captain America, since that's what it is.

About tying this first chapter in with the upcoming The Avengers movie, Joe Johnston had this to say.

"Because this was a period film, because this was the origin story, I didn't have to worry about The Avengers which was a present day story. We have present-day bookends and bring Cap back at the end and then I basically hand him off. And The Avengers is its own thing. The fact that they are all so different is what will make it exciting. You bring these elements together and they all have different outlooks and come from different worlds. I think there is an opportunity for conflict within the group. There's gotta be. It's not the Boy Scouts. [Laughs] There's going to be rivalry and certain amount of infighting and conflict. Like I say I'm going to be there as an audience member like anybody else."

Yesterday we got a pic of Hugo Weaving as the pre-disfigured Red Skull holding the infamous Cosmic Cube in Captain America: The First Avenger. Today, we have stumbled upon possible Red Skull concept art that reveals what Hugo Weaving will look like once his villain's transformation is complete. While these images have not been verified, they do appear in the same style of the other concept art pieces that have leaked, which have been verified. Take a look at the Red Skull art below:

Paramount Pictures has provided us with new, high-resolution photos from Captain America: The First Avenger, which will be released in theaters nationwide on July 22, 2011. We first showed you these pics last week from the pages of Entertainment Weekly, and now the studio has provided us with clean images. Click on any of these photos, which feature Chris Evans, Hayley Atwell and Hugo Weaving, to access our high-res gallery:

Marvel Studios announced today that Hugo Weaving has been cast to star as Johann Schmidt aka the Red Skull in the studio's highly anticipated movie Captain America: The First Avenger opposite Chris Evans and Hayley Atwell. In the early comics, Johann Schmidt was drafted into loyal service of The Third Reich and renamed "The Red Skull." The character will be updated for the feature adaptation. Joe Johnston will direct the film penned by Christopher Markus & Stephen McFeely.

Marvel Studios' Kevin Feige will produce Captain America: The First Avenger. Alan Fine, Stan Lee, David Maisel and Louis D'Esposito will executive produce. The film will be released in the US on July 22, 2011 and distributed by Paramount Pictures.

Captain America: The First Avenger will focus on the early days of the Marvel Universe when Steve Rogers volunteers to participate in an experimental program that turns him into the Super Soldier known as Captain America.

Weaving was last seen in The Wolfman and his voice is very recognizable as Megatron from Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as well as Noah the Elder from Happy Feet. His other film credits include starring in V For Vendetta, The Matrix franchise, and The Lord of the Rings trilogy.